What gate is being kept by a guy writing an article about something they are passionate about? This is such a "hackernews type comment" and it's so weird. If someone reads this article about a dude who talks about how growing up with computers formed his personality and how he was into computers before they were cool and decides "welp, guess I can't do computers now", they probably weren't going to get very far with computers regardless.

There's no gate being kept here. It's just someone talking about something they are passionate about and then expressing their opinion about current technology. They're not stopping anyone from also loving the computer. If anything, I could see someone reading this and being MORE excited to get into computing.